Reading Time: < 1 minute By Oliver Thompson ‘Read’ in Holmfirth are one of 12 independent bookshops to have recently received a HarperCollins Literacy Grant. The grants were launched in January 2019 which offered “funding to... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Oliver Thompson Over 75s in the United Kingdom are going to have to start paying for their TV licence again.   The annual charge – now set at £154.50 – allows a consumer to view television that rec... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes By Greg Dawson In the first episode of the new BBC Documentary ‘Hometown: a Killing’ Journalist Mobeen Azhar returns to his home town of Huddersfield to report on the death of Yassar Yaqub. Yassar, a known dru... Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Oliver Thompson According to new research, humans could eat and breathe up to 52,000 microplastics every year.  Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments that are broken down from man-made products such as syntheti... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson Kirklees Council is appealing against a judicial review which is currently preventing them from taking over Cemetery Road allotments in Birkby. A group of allotment holders had previously won a battle w... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson A vacant shop space in the Huddersfield Lion Arcade is hosting art events and exhibitions over the next few weeks. Yan Tan Tether features a number of public exhibitions that explore how we interact wit... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes By Greg Dawson A review from the Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) has found opportunities to expose a grooming gang which raped and abused girls as young as 11 around the Huddersfield area were lost. Twenty... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson NHS bosses are turning to online parenting forums as a way to entice nurses who have left their jobs to rejoin again. This has been released in part of the interim People Plan, setting a target of recru... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kirklees Local TV’s documentary “Windrush: The Years After a Community Legacy on Film” premiered on Friday the 7th of June, showing for the first time the 45 minute film on the legacy of the Windrush generation. Last year... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson Over 3,000 men are urgently needed to donate blood to centres across Yorkshire. NHS blood and Transplant have said there is a particular shortage of male blood donors in the Leeds and Bradford Area. New... Read more